I bolded the part of your post I was replying to. Here, I'll post it again
"Looks to me like they trade blows. The 2700x wins the very first benchmark. It looks like its between the 95 watt and the unlimited benches on average."
You're suggesting that:
1. They trade blows
2. That the 2700x may actually be faster than the 95 watt 9900k
I'm arguing that based on a result of 2:1 in favor of the 95w 9900k in the linked benchmarks, your suggestion seems to be ignoring the actual data in the links. The order in performance is:
1. 9900k Unleashed
2. 9900k Tamed (95w)
3. 2700x
When your opponent is punching you twice as much as you are punching them, you're not trading blows. You're getting pummeled into "bolivion," to quote the great Mike Tyson.
it is not 2:1 really, lets look at the benchces
for me a difference of 5% +- is a tie, you won't even see it in real world
1. cinebech tie
2. blender tie
3. corona 9900K small win (<10%)
4. vray tie
5. zip compress- 9900K wins
6. zip decompress- tie
7. excel 9900k wins
8.h265 9900k wins
9.h264 tie
10. premiere tie
gaming is 9900K win or tie
but with real power budget, while the ryzen 2700X (105W and other intel chips, like 8700K) doesnt hold to its power budget (ofc TDP isnt officially power bla bla, but test is made with power limit)
give that 9900K system a chance to consume 210W not 175W and things will be very different
need to have 7nm to get back with power to that 7700K while having 8 cores at the performance of CFL 5GHz
everywhere you see green world....use less resources, my whole house lights use the same power that my table light back in highschool years, yet we increase the power of desktop systems again
cpu- rise (not even counting that 500W 28C xeon)
GPU- total rise
I have a undervolted 6600K oced to 4.4GHz - while stress testing in intel extreme utility the package TDP fluctuates between 41 to 47W, system bought january 2016
to have more than 10% performance (to notice anything, barely) with first 4 threads I need to get 8600k+ and oc it to 5GHz, which means going to like 120W+ depending on the chip
WTF really, 3,5 years and you can get a sidegrade or upgrade at the cost 3x the power....